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"Oklahoma had it's first deadly tornado of the year according to the Storm Prediction Center. In the filtered tornado reports, it lists Quapaw,OK as having had a tornado destroy part of the town.The time, which is listed as 2232 is translated to 5:32pm Oklahoma time.\u00A0 Of course it does need to be said that the NWS will need to go out and assess the damage in Quapaw to provide a rating to the storm.Unfortunately, there was not a tornado warning issued for this storm. Looking back at the official warning text for this storm, it read like this:The official warning was a SEVERE THUNDERSTORM warning for quarter size hail and winds of 60 mph was broadcasted at 5:17pm, 15 minutes before the storm impacted the town. There was however a tornado watch in effect for the warned area as mentioned in the official severe thunderstorm warning.Tornadoes can spin up out of severe thunderstorm warnings very quickly.And the residents in NE Oklahoma were well aware of the impending weather days in advance as the Storm Prediction Center had Quapaw under a moderate risk.Yesterday, the risk area looked like this:Yesterday, Quapaw was included in the MODERATE RISK for severe weather. And today, the risk area looked like this:Again, Quapaw was included in the risk area.No doubt about it, this is a very tragic situation with no tornado warning issued for this storm and what appears to clearly be a tornado. But at the end of the day that is not what matters most. 2 Oklahomans passed away today. Thoughts and prayers to the families impacted by this."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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